After a nearly three-hour public hearing Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed unanimously to place a measure on the March ballot that asks voters to approve a quarter-cent sales tax to help fund supportive services for the homel...

Two newly elected Los Angeles County supervisors brought historic changes to local politics Monday when they became part of a supermajority of women to serve on the largest local governmental body in the nation.

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Thanksgiving

“Pass the gravy. I’ll have some more stuffing. Oh, and Uncle Bob, why do you hate America?” Such table talk might be a staple of your Thanksgiving dinner. But while politics discussed over cranberry sauce is nothing new, this year’s dinnertime debate could be especially intense in the wake of November’s divisive presidential election. “When it comes to politics, people get emotional because it relates to their belief system,” said...

State elections

LOS ANGELES >> An initiative calling for a 2019 vote on whether California should secede from the United States was filed Monday with the Attorney General’s Office. Backers are seeking to get what they have dubbed “Calexit: The California Independence Plebiscite of 2019” on the November 2018 ballot. If the initiative is approved by voters, it would force a vote on March 13, 2019, the election date for local, odd-year elections, on whether...

City News Service|2 weeks, 3 days ago

Presidential elections

Southern California Democrats aren’t waiting for Donald Trump to move into the White House before taking issue with one of his appointees and a possible plan to require immigrants from Muslim countries to join a registry. One hundred sixty-nine House Democrats signed a letter to the president-elect this week urging him to rescind his appointment of Stephen Bannon to a chief adviser and senior strategist in the White House. Bannon, who worked on the Trump campaign and is...

Immigration policy

California leaders reached out Thursday in an effort to assure that students on local campuses would not face possible deportation after the Donald Trump administration takes office. Reps. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose; Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Downey; and Luis V. Gutierrez, D-Ill., sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to use his pardon authority during the Thanksgiving season to forgive past and future civil immigration offenses of nearly 750,000 people, students known as...

From staff and wire reports|3 weeks ago

Illegal immigrant deportation

The chancellor of the Long Beach-based Cal State University system Thursday reiterated his pledge to make campuses a safe environment for its students – including those living in the country illegally – but he declined to declare the CSU campuses as “sanctuaries” that would be off-limits to immigration authorities. In light of the Nov. 8 presidential election of Donald Trump, who has called for the deportation of millions of people in the country illegally,...

City News Service|3 weeks ago

Electoral college

Long Beach’s Daniel Brezenoff has not conceded the 2016 presidential election. On the day after voters pushed Trump over the top in Electoral College votes, the former deputy chief of staff for Mayor Robert Garcia started a petition on change.org, which calls itself “the world’s platform for change,” urging the electors to “make Hillary Clinton president on Dec. 19,” the day the members cast their votes.

Legal proceedings

The West Hollywood man who admitted to vandalizing President-elect Donald Trump’s Hollywood star has been charged with felony vandalism, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. James Lambert Otis, 52, made headlines on Oct. 26 after video of him taking a pick-axe to the star went viral. A felony complaint filed by the...

Daily News staff|3 weeks ago

Presidential elections

On Sunday afternoon, about 150 immigrants and immigrant allies gathered in the Ascension Lutheran Church in Milwaukee. The forum, organized by the city’s largest immigrant advocacy group, was part community therapy, part action planning. A middle-aged man with dark hair, wearing a royal blue windbreaker, took the microphone: “It wasn’t our hope, but it’s the reality. We have Trump elected,” he said in Spanish. Real-time translation was provided to...

By Maura Ewing
PRI.org|3 weeks ago

Immigration

President-elect Donald Trump has made many promises — and a few threats. • More: Listen to this story on PRI.org Often, the latter are directed at Mexico. For example, he’s promised that Mexico will pay for the border wall he says must be built. His idea to do that is to stop people in the US from sending money...

By PRI.org Staff|3 weeks ago

Local Elections

Overwhelming support from two groups — millennials and Latinos — propelled Measure M to victory in Los Angeles County, according to polling and numbers from the preliminary results of the vote. The half-cent sales tax, which is expected to raise $860 million a year for building new rail projects, adding bus lines, fixing congested freeway interchanges and filling potholes, passed with nearly 70 percent support. With the measure, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan...